Principia: A Series of Essays on the Principles of Evil Manifesting Themselves in These Last Times in Religion, Philosophy, and PoliticsJ. Burns, 1843 - 431 páginas |
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... object in which we were agreed . The emancipation of slaves is a great measure ; -- but let us look at the children in our factories . Longevity is in- creased among the richer classes ; -but in Glasgow the mortality has grown from one ...
... object in which we were agreed . The emancipation of slaves is a great measure ; -- but let us look at the children in our factories . Longevity is in- creased among the richer classes ; -but in Glasgow the mortality has grown from one ...
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... objects , the facility of which is diminished in proportion as they become distant . But if the shades of night should overtake the aëronaut , or even if a mist or gloom should shut out distant objects from distinct vision , the voyager ...
... objects , the facility of which is diminished in proportion as they become distant . But if the shades of night should overtake the aëronaut , or even if a mist or gloom should shut out distant objects from distinct vision , the voyager ...
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... object in private life . And in public life and government , -whatever is free and liberal , and self - denying and moderate , is shunned and avoided and out - reasoned , and is not found consistent with sound policy , and modern ...
... object in private life . And in public life and government , -whatever is free and liberal , and self - denying and moderate , is shunned and avoided and out - reasoned , and is not found consistent with sound policy , and modern ...
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... object . It has been too much lost sight of , that the prosperity and riches of the country ought not to be promoted irrespective of the prosperity and happiness of the peo- ple . But there is no difference . It is impossible for that ...
... object . It has been too much lost sight of , that the prosperity and riches of the country ought not to be promoted irrespective of the prosperity and happiness of the peo- ple . But there is no difference . It is impossible for that ...
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... most depend- ent , the sceptic the most superstitious and credulous , and of the meanest objects . Strange ! that we should boast ourselves of our title to the greatest wisdom , 28 FAILURE OF THE PRESENT SYSTEM . [ ESSAY III .
... most depend- ent , the sceptic the most superstitious and credulous , and of the meanest objects . Strange ! that we should boast ourselves of our title to the greatest wisdom , 28 FAILURE OF THE PRESENT SYSTEM . [ ESSAY III .
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Página 290 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Página 344 - Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
Página 427 - The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble.
Página 339 - And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Página 327 - In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God. They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
Página 346 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Página 162 - And Enoch also the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying ; Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Página 159 - For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Página 342 - But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
Página 342 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered ; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.